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Why Montoursville?

sunbeam May 23, 2019 Comments Off

On Tuesday there was a special election for the House in Pennsylvania House district, PA-12. This has been a reliably safe Republican seat during the incumbency of Tom Marino. Marino resigned in January leading to the need for a special election to fill the seat.

There were two main-stream candidates, Fred Keller (R) and Marc Friedenberg (D). Keller was a state legislator while Friedenberg, an academic and lawyer, had run against Marino in 2018.

Cold Anger

sunbeam May 22, 2019 Comments Off

Bill Whittle summarizes the corruption of the Obama administration and what followed. He lays it out item by item. Bill Whittle doesn’t say “Cold Anger” but what he expresses, the anger, the frustration and the resolve, is exactly that.

This has not been just an attempted coup to bring down PDJT. The coup attempt is trying to hide the corruption of many elite pols. PDJT was and is a threat to them and their cash cows!

A Beating Heart

sunbeam May 21, 2019 Comments Off

Democrats and those on the extreme left (I realize I am being redundant here) have been moving more and more towards expanding laws that allow the killing of children. Earlier this year the leftist-dominated NY State legislature passed a law to cheers and applause that allowed a child to be killed up to the moment of birth.

The NY Governor celebrated that new law by lighting state sites pink. Black or blood red would have been a more appropriate color.

The Art Of The Deal

sunbeam May 20, 2019 Comments Off

In what historians will undoubtedly debate as a master stroke, PDJT announced on Friday that the tariffs on aluminum and steel from Canada and Mexico had been removed. At the same time Canada and Mexico removed their tariffs on American goods. All of this is expected to be in effect by Monday, May 20th.

Bloomberg…President Donald Trump said the U.S. will lift steel and aluminum tariffs on Canada and Mexico, boosting efforts to encourage lawmakers to ratify a new North American trade deal (USMCA).

Political Humor

sunbeam May 18, 2019 Comments Off

A little humor for a Saturday.

EXPLOSIVE DAY!!!

sunbeam May 17, 2019 Comments Off

Thursday was an interesting day. Over in Italy it is reported that Prime Minister Giuseppe Conté has requested the resignations of six top Italian intelligence officials. The resignation requests are being interpreted as a reaction to the possible exposing of collusion with U.S. intelligence officials during the 2016 U.S. election in the operation now known as “Spygate.”

Keep in mind that Conté is the head of a new government, one that was not in place in 2016. Also keep in mind that Joseph Mifsud, who had largely disappeared from public view, had been found in Rome. Mifsud is closely linked to George Papadopoulos and the “Spygate” schemes that were hatched overseas.

Value of Life

sunbeam May 16, 2019 Comments Off

Governor Matt Bevin of Kentucky responds to a question implying that his position on the value of children’s lives and gun control are hypocritical. The questioner was referring to the Parkland HS shooting.

His response hits the nail on the head about the problems existing in this country around the value of life. He accurately points out that reducing media coverage is part of the response needed to help the situation. Governor Bevin calls out the idea that a single law or rule as a solution as “naïve and delusional.”

Entrapment

sunbeam May 15, 2019 Comments Off

An interesting article appeared a few days ago over at CTH. In it Sundance, with the help of some individuals who did a deep dive into some recently released FOIA material, exposes more corruption in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.

The article documents an entrapment scheme on George Papadopoulos run by the SC’s office.

Key takeaways from this article are:

The SC investigation was corrupt at its highest levels
FARA (Foreign Agent Registration Act) violations were the common source of trying to get leverage over targets of the investigation.
Manufacturing criminal conduct was a tool in the SC’s toolbox.
It may be that Andrew Weissmann was more in charge of the investigation than Robert Mueller was.

FBI Fantasies

sunbeam May 14, 2019 Comments Off

Eric Felten over at Real Clear Investigations has written a piece that provides a clear insight into the mindsets and attitudes of those who were running theFBI and DOJ departments during the Obama administration.

AG Barr has started to investigate spying. However, as Felten points out, spying is just one of possible multiple violations of investigative rules and ethics committed by agents, lawyers, managers, and officials at the FBI and the DOJ.

For three years (2016-2018), Bill Priestap was assistant director of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division, which meant he oversaw the FBI’s global counterintelligence efforts.

Felten takes a deep dive into the testimony that Priestap provided to Congress in a closed-door interview in the summer of 2018. Priestap’s testimony provides a “rare insight into the attitudes and thoughts of officials who launched the Russia probe and the probe of Special Counsel Robert Mueller.”

Spying On A President Is Normal

sunbeam May 13, 2019 1 Comment

Are the Democrats trying to convince the public that spying on a presidential campaign is routine? Are they doing this because they know that damning information is going to be released in the near future about the spying that the Obama administration did on opposition candidates? That such spying may go all the way back to 2012?

Are the Democrats so deranged that they are trying to make it seem like it is normal to do this, that it is no big deal? And that the public should just go about their business because there is nothing to be seen here?